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  1. Internet Streaming Services
    Frndly continues to have extreme problems with both Weigel channels and many others; the 'no data available' has now been joined with the 'this program is not currently available please check back later' label. Obviously the system is falling apart, what started as a handful of programs on a...
  2. Internet Streaming Services
    Frndly is on the verge of falling over into near complete failure of their system, with a huge increse of the number of programs being replaced in their guide with the 'no data available' label. Obviously, their 'engineering and programming staff' vacation schedule has gone past the summer into...
  3. Internet Streaming Services
    A new wrinkle in the 'no data available' guide problems (mostly on the new Weigel added channels but it has shown up on others), now the guide is showing a blank rather than the somewhat cryptic 'NDA'. Obviously some programmer(s) are on to something. Exactly what is unknown, but leaving the...
  4. Internet Streaming Services
    This 'merging' of one smaller less capitalized company with another much larger and flush with cash, where the smaller takes over the direction of the combined company (using huge piles of loaned cash?) seems to be an American way of doing business going back several decades. Seems to rarely...
  5. Internet Streaming Services
    A lot of folks like myself, got many of the channels they carry either by carriage of local subchannels (cable, sat, or ota) but upon retirement moved well out of range of the weak digital signals the stations currently transmit, and dropped the overpriced subscription services for streaming, so...
  6. Internet Streaming Services
    Well I jumped on the full tilt subscription, and after a couple weeks simply added just about every conceivable program to the dvr system; a month plus in most of the horse opera series from the 50s-60s have sucked up the majority of seasons. The one thing the system doesnt do is add programs...
  7. Internet Streaming Services
    Of course, as soon as the pathetic east coast programmers fix one major problem with the mlb.tv system they fail in another. I had listened to a radio broadcast of a game a week ago with no problems, the graphics updated right in sync with the radio. Of course, I kept watch on another game on...
  8. Internet Streaming Services
    When I lived close to the big city dma's and in a community without any antenna restrictions dont quote fcc rules, they dont apply to property title restrictions all these channels were available ota most on subchannels. But as the dma I live in is 300 miles from end to end, I'm over the...
  9. Internet Streaming Services
    Of course, the problem with Sinclair/Bally is the rsn's that are not part of the combine, particularly those part of the DirecTV slate (Seattle, Denver, Pittsburg, Houston, did I miss any?) and independents like Marque (?) that does the Cubs. I guess they all are out in the cold. Mlb really...
  10. Internet Streaming Services
    Well, after close to three weeks since the start of the season, mlb.tv has finally settled down and fixed all the navigation problems with their roku app. The only wackiness remaining is the inconsistencies with the close captioning. I thought for a bit that if one had cc on in another app...
  11. Internet Streaming Services
    Typical comment from folks on this forum. As a graduate engineer with over 50 years experience in video systems, including several in the early years working with companies such as Sony, Ericsson, eventually Tivo and others at the dawn of widespread digital video systems, that's the real...
  12. Internet Streaming Services
    The handful of folks who have the xfinity/flex device 'free' have just about universally condemned it as essentially less than a first generation roku. Maybe they think that throwing a load of spectrum engineers at it will make it better. There have been a couple of folks out there in the...
  13. Internet Streaming Services
    Finally, some 2+ weeks after the start of the season, all 13 games currently playing actually do go to live play after selecting 'watch live'. There are 3 other late games and one blackout but this is by far the most games where the navigation on the roku app works this close to 100%. We'll...
  14. Internet Streaming Services
    Yet another weakness at mlb.tv, today's wtf is the date. Today of course is April 25, yet all over the mlb.tv site the current date is listed as April 26. That must be some really good dope making the rounds in NYC at the mlb.tv hq. Are they thinking they are in the other side of the...
  15. Local Reception
    Newest YouTube posting from 'Antenna Guy' no longer has pushing atsc 1.0 forever, as it had become obvious to all that there are no fcc requirements for stations to continue using bandwidth for that after transitioning to 3.0, and never were. But he still has an eastern US tilt, failing to...
  16. Internet Streaming Services
    They're going backwards; now when selecting a game (is still going on) all you get for a selection is 'condensed game'. You cant get to the live game at all. I'd complain again, but they're complaint system has been broke for at least a couple of days and I'm not going to waste my time on it.
  17. Internet Streaming Services
    21 April: navigation problems continue (but closed captioning is back to working correctly, ie, off by default; #!#!??), while complaint form at mlb.tv continues to be down (errors out and wont take your complaint, no matter how you word it), obviously they know there's a big problem but have...
  18. Local Reception
    My first generation Samsung 4k tv (7 yrs old) started biting the bullet a month ago and I thought for a minute about a 3.0 set, but as I live well over the horizon from both closest cities (120 miles from both Seattle and Portland) and the stations have given up on maintaining any...
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    Same here, in fact direct from the 'antenna guy' on youtube. I wanted to be a tv station engineer from when I was in 7th grade, got my 2nd class then first class fcc licence by the time I finished first year of community college in 1971. Then spent 22 yrs in the army (enlisted, nco, reserves...
  20. Local Reception
    Interesting reading the comments here about the large eastern dma's foot dragging on adopting 3.0, especially in light of all three of the big city's in the Pacific Northwest having (Seattle, Portland, Boise) implemented virtually all stations by the middle of 2021. Now comes the news I had...
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